Meiotic drive in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster .5. On the nature of the SD region
Meiotic drive in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster .5. On the nature of the SD region
Tags: Gene drive mechanisms, Transmission distortionSandler, LH, Y., Genetics, 45:1671-1689. 1960.
Second chromosomes were collected from nature which, when heterozygous with a normal chromosome 1 in males, are present in functional sperm much more often than the expected 50 percent. This phenomenon, named segregation distortion, was found to depend on a locus named Segregation-distorter (symbolized SD), which is located near the centromere (and probably in the right arm) of chromosome 1
